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Originally Posted by dino7c

Are the Panthers and Lightning complaining? or is anyone complaining about that series? because they have let more go in that one than all the others IMO.l

The Lightning have been quite vocal, in fact.

The Lightning won 6-2, taking a commanding 3-1 series lead heading into Game 5 in Sunrise. Their dynamic power play continued to shine, scoring twice, with Kucherov and Killorn picking up four points. Andrei Vasilevskiy shut the door with 39 saves. The penalty kill went 5-for-6 in a wild first period. That should be the story.
Instead, the focus surrounded the 26 penalties, five misconducts and a few line brawls. All of this could have been avoided.

“When your players are being told, ‘Don’t do anything stupid, we’re going to get you,’ and the other team is getting rewarded, I don’t get it,” Cooper said. “It’s really frustrating because people come to watch a really intense, good hockey game, and liberties are being taken. Don’t get me wrong, we’re not angels out there. I’m not sitting here saying that, far from it.
“But when there’s a standard set and we’re being told things are going to be called and when it doesn’t get done, there’s just confusion. I’ll give our guys a ton of credit for sticking with and battling through embellishments and non-calls after non-calls after non-calls and having so many not go the way we want.”

You can tell from the reaction from our bench that it’s not the cleanest play,” Hedman said. “But it’s out of my reach. We can’t do anything about it now. If it was dirty, we know we have people looking at it. We’ll see.” Like Cooper said, the Lightning “aren’t angels,” either. There have been some questionable hits on both sides, though the only suspension has been for Sam Bennett’s boarding of Blake Coleman in Game 1. Panthers fans are likely upset with Ryan McDonagh for his takedown of Mason Marchment a few games ago.

Craig Berube wasn't particularly happy either.